Morgan Stanley recently surveyed over 900 institutional investors to understand their current thoughts on sustainable investments. With climate adaptation and resilience growing in prominence as themes, investors cited catastrophe bonds and physical risk insurance contracts among their top picks.
Most institutional investors maintain a positive outlook for sustainable investments, with 84% of those surveyed saying they anticipate them increasing the proportion of sustainable assets within their portfolios. The figure is even higher at 86% if you look at asset owners only, so exclude asset managers.
Interestingly as well, 90% of North American asset owners said they would plan to increase the proportion of their assets held in sustainable strategies over the next two years.
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